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Mary Keziah Gilliland Sayers
3 Dec 1846 – 18 Jan 1933
| Birth | 3 Dec 1846 |
| Death | 18 Jan 1933 |
| Cemetery | Walker Cemetery Redland , Angelina County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Judy Murphy on 09 Jan 2022 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63430416 |
Bio
Per D/C #45: Father: Sam Gilliland Mother: Allie Colwell D/C informant: Mrs. Rose Moss ================================================ The funeral of Mrs. M. K. Sayers, 86 year old pioneer of Angelina county, who died at her home in this city Wednesday afternoon, following the death of a granddaughter, Fannie Muriel Moody, on the 21st of December and that of an older son, L. C. Sayers, on last Sunday, January 15, was held in the Old Walker Cemetery yesterday afternoon, following the services at the First Methodist Church at 2 o'clock. The church services were in charge of Rev. H. C. Willis, pastor of the First Methodist Church of this city, assisted by Rev. J. N. Wooten of the First Christian Church Lufkin and Rev. Harry Hays, pastor of the Livingston Methodist Church. Rev. Willis had known and visited the deceased ever since his coming to Lufkin over a year ago, and his tribute of love for and appreciation and, with the assistance of the older boy, Lew, educated and gave to the world a number of splendid women and a son who has since attained state-wide prominence in the practice of his profession of Law. This well-known and highly esteemed pioneer citizen of Angelina County was born December 3, 1846 at Gilliland Chapel, near Zavalla, being the daughter of Samuel and Allie Gilliland, receiving her education at the school of Homer and being married to Scott Sayers shortly after attaining young womanhood. This union was blessed with 10 children; 3 boys, Lew, Tom and Sam; 7 girls, Allie, Claudia, Josey, Mattie, Inez, Louise and Rose; 6 of whom survive. The family moved to Lufkin in 1891, with the husband building the two-story frame structure in West Lufkin, still known as the old Sayers home, where the happiness of the family circle was broken from time to time with the removal of first one and then another, culminating in the removal of the beloved head of the household 35 years ago. (The full obituary can be found in the Lufkin Daily News, January 19, 1933)
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Siblings
- PVT Samuel Blackstone Gilliland 1837–1862
- James Lucian Gilliland 1840–1918
- Martha Ann Gilliland Ivy 1844–1904
- William Eli Gilliland 1849–1920
- Devilla Caroline Gilliland Townsend 1853–1897
Children
- Allie D. Sayers Renfro 1871–1892
- Claudia Sayers 1873–1969
- Lew Carey Sayers 1875–1933
- Thomas Scott Sayers Jr 1876–1894
- Mary Josephine Sayers Feagin 1878–1958
- Mattie Pearl Sayers Binion 1880–1961
- Ellen Inez Sayers Kennard 1883–1974
- Rose Sayers Moss 1884–1968
- Sam Reagan Sayers 1888–1956
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